New Slick Contest

01 March 2011

Yipee! There's a new contest over at the Slick forums.

The themes are quite interesting and you don't strictly have to use Slick. You could try to develop an Android game with the "Android are not always friends of mine" theme using the new Slick for Android stuff that Kevin Glass has been working on.

Post on the official thread on the Slick forums to register for the contest. The deadline for this is March 15th; make sure you do it!

Here is the official poster for the contest, which (handily) has some more information:

Game Jolt Contest: Invention

A new contest is being held over at Game Jolt. I've publicised the last few contests and jams there, and that doesn't change this time with a month-long contest being sponsored by NALGames.

The theme is "Invention", which leaves you with plenty of creative options. Secondly, there are prizes; hurrah! (So there's no excuse that you're too busy with TIGSource's Versus Compo!). The full details are over at the Game Jolt forums; here's a link to the contest thread.

A piece of art inspired by the "Invention" theme, if you can call it "art". I can just imagine a bunch of dinos running around inventing language, the wheel and other things that humanity takes for granted. What is it with me and dinosaurs?

AG iPod Exchange
I had to format my laptop due to a few virus issues and when everything got back to normal, Yamipod decided that it didn't want to work for me anymore (probably due to a pesky update by Apple). This prompted me to create my own really simple program to copy the contents of my iPod back on to my laptop with names that actually make sense. It uses an external jar library to read in the ID3 tags which can be viewed here.
What a way to spend a Sunday afternoon, eh?

Minimal Story:
You are white square in a world of reds.
The reds don't really want you around, but they are normally passive beings. You've provoked them a little, and things escalate. You are no match for their army.

Minimal Gameplay:
Arrow keys and leftctrl to move and shoot. There is no definitive ending to this game, you will eventually be killed by the swarms and swarms of red stuff. O_O

Slick "Beer" Contest!

28 September 2009

You may know already that I've been using Slick quite adamantly for some time now.
Well, a young man named Gornova from Random Tower thought it would be a jolly good idea to start a beer-themed contest over on the Slick Forums. Granted, I thought about posting one a while back, but figured that JGO was for that kind of thing. What is my idea? I don't want to give too much away, but it involves... cider!

I am really, very proud of myself; this was the first games programming competition that I had ever entered. There are an array of features that had to be left out of Hoola Roundup due to time constraints, but I will be putting these features in shortly.